Wells did more than 100 interviews with all Dolphins players and coaches, key front office personnel and owner and chairman and reviewed documents, including text messages, emails and team policies.

“The Report concludes that three starters on the Dolphins offensive line, Richie Incognito, John Jerry and Mike Pouncey, engaged in a pattern of harassmeengaged in a pattern of harassment directed at not only Jonathan Martin, but also another young Dolphins offensive lineman and an assistant traine,” Wells said. “The Report finds that the assistant trainer repeatedly was the object of racial slurs and other racially derogatory language; that the other offensive lineman was subjected to homophobic name-calling and improper physical touching; and that Martin was taunted on a persistent basis with sexually explicit remarks about his sister and his mother and at times ridiculed with racial insults and other offensive comments.

“The Report rejects any suggestion that Martin manufactured claims of abuse after the fact to cover up an impetuous decision to leave the team. Contemporaneous text messages that Martin sent to his parents and others months before he left the Dolphins which have never before been made public corroborate his account that the persistent harassment by his teammates caused him significant emotional distress The Report concludes that the harassment by Martin’s teammates was a contributing factor in his decision to leave the team, but also finds that Martin’s teammates did not intend to drive Martin from the team or cause him lasting emotional injury. Consistent with my prior practices involving similar investigative reports, it is not my present intention to hold a press conference or comment further about the Report. The Report is thorough and comprehensive, and speaks for itself.”

According to the report, offensive lineman Nate Garner was harassed by the offensive linemen.

“Garner, who is white, confirmed reports that he was often mocked by Incognito and other starters on the offensive line, in part because he was viewed as having interests that are considered non-traditional for a football player, such as computers and remote-control helicopters, and said that he was known as a “nerd' He told us that he avoided sending text messages to the offensive line group out of fear that they would respond with derision. Garner believed that he was probably treated worse than Martin, and he told Martin, in an apparent effort to commiserate with him,that he had been through similar treatment. According to Garner, the company and support of his fianc

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